Sentence examples for affliction as a from inspiring English sources

But being metropolitan themselves has never stopped the Tories from treating the affliction as a vice in others.

The only person to speak to camera is an elderly blind monk, who talks of his affliction as a gift from God.

Lowell understood determination, but not helplessness; it was Bishop's genius as a poet (and affliction as a woman) to comprehend both.

The lecture seeks to conceptualize how we might understand a scene of chronic and progressively pathological affliction as a site for witnessing the anatomy of a cultured and cultivated cure from within the emergent field of regenerative medicine.

You feel Philippe's mind para-gliding, lost, into the abyss of  despair at the same time as you recognise that he exploits his affliction as a way of imprisoning others.

The couple describe their affliction as a "mist as dense as that which hung over the marshes", and equally opaque.

In a world where water is more precious than gold, knowing how to find it is an affliction as much as a gift.

Working as Mephistophelean morality tales, they reassuringly remind us that exceptional talent can be an affliction as well as a gift and that sometimes the price of success is one that we – the average, the normal, the unchosen – would not wish to pay.

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"Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets," essayist Tim Kreider wrote in The New York Times.

"They see their daughter's affliction as an opportunity".